Fanless Tech found some slides which shows Intel has some exciting new hardware planned for release over the next couple of years.

The roadmap shows that Intel will make its new Celeron processor available in the fourth quarter of 2016 with its Arches Canyon model. Its 7th-gen Core chip looks like it will be available at the beginning of 2017 within the Baby Canyon i7 model. Intel will continue to offer the recently launched Skull Canyon through 2017.

Based on the leaked information, Intel has plans to continue its NUC line at least through 2018, offering progressively faster hardware with more options to meet custom applications of the device.

Intel’s NUCs are doing rather well and have been getting good reviews. They are getting increasingly tied to Chipzilla’s chip upgrades so they are remaining fairly cutting edge.

Chipzilla has been showing off its new Skull Canyon NUC at the 2016 Game Developers Conference.

Intel has been telling anyone that will listen at the conference that the PC is the leading gaming platform. It has also been explaining how new PC gaming experiences may be had by using its Core processors, Intel Graphics, Intel RealSense technology and Thunderbolt 3.

But when it came to something more practical Chipzilla shows its new Intel NUC (code-named Skull Canyon) featuring a 6th Generation Intel Core i7 processor, Intel Iris Pro graphics and Thunderbolt 3.

The new NUC6i7KYK includes a 2.6GHz (3.5GHz Turbo) 45W quad-core Core i7-6770HQ. Not the fastest but pretty quick. The Iris Pro 580 GPU, has 78 of Intel's graphics execution units and a 128MB eDRAM cache and the Thunderbolt 3 port which also supports full USB 3.1 gen 2 transfer speeds of 10Gbps.

It takes DDR4 memory, M.2 SATA and PCI Express SSDs, and comes with a built-in Intel 8260 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapter, just like the Core i5 NUC.

There is a full-size HDMI 2.0 port, a mini DisplayPort 1.2 output, four USB 3.0 ports, a headphone jack, an SD card slot, a gigabit LAN port, and an IR sensor for use with remote controls. This will be the first NUC to support Thunderbolt, which opens up possibilities for external graphics cards down the line.

Skull Canyon measures 216 by 116 by 23mm. Like all NUCs, you'll need to bring your own RAM, OS, and storage to the party. The barebones model will cost around $650, and Intel claims that a "typical build with 16GB memory, 256GB SSD, and Windows 10 is estimated at $999."

Last week we got to see the updated 2016 incarnations of Intel’s NUC (Next Unit of Computing) small PCs and heard Chipzilla pitch its Skulltrail based Core i7 product .

Fudzilla was the part of the mega briefing with Director of Product Marketing at Intel John Deatherage and a Technical Marketing Engineer Alan Clampett who are Intel’s experts on NUCs.

Intel’s plan is for major updates in the NUC line by placing the updated Atom version and Core i3 and Core M versions under the bonnet. More interesting was the new Skulltrail based Core i7 product announcment.

Skulltrail was Intel’s gaming platform in 2008 that involved two server class extreme edition CPUs. It was a synonym for high performance. The brand was revived with the Intel SSD 730 and it was seen as bringing the enterprise speeds to the high end consumers and gamers.

The new NUC puts Sculltrail into the ultra-small form factor. The machine is rather thin but significantly longer than the traditional NUC. It looks a bit like the Nvidia Shield console in its rectangular shape and thin design. We have known about it for a while.

John Deatherage Director of Product Marketing didn’t want to talk about specific hardware that was buried inside but it is clear that you can expect a mobile version of the Extreme edition in this rather small PC. Intel believes that the machine packs a decent performance even for gaming but the experience will be limited by an integrated 530 core that made it into the Skylake versions of the CPUs.

According to a published teaser, Intel is working on a new high-end NUC (next-unit of computing) system, codename Skull Canyon, which will be powered by an unknown Skylake CPU, featuring an Iris Pro iGPU.

While there are still no details regarding precise specifications of the aforementioned Skull Canyon NUC, according to a report from FanlessTech, the new NUC will be powered by Intel's 6th generation Core Skylake CPU with Gen9 Iris Pro 580 GPU (GT4e) which packs 72 EUs (Execution Units) and 128MB of eDRAM L4 cache.

While we had a chance to see Intel's Iris Graphics 540 and 550 chips in action, with 48 EUs and 64MB eDRAM cache, the Iris Pro 580 iGPU with 72 EUs and 128 eDRAM cache still has not appeared in any Skylake SKU so the upcoming Skull Canyon NUC might be the first to be powered by such a iGPU. Unfortunately, this also raises the question of a TDP and Intel's ability to squeeze such CPU with Iris Pro 580 iGPU inside a small enough NUC chassis.

According to the same report, the new Skull Canyon NUC should be launched sometime in the first quarter of 2016.

Chipzilla has released four new models of mini PCs which support its sixth generation Skylake chip.

The models we are talking about are the NUC6i5SYK, NUC6i5SYH, NUC6i3SYK and NUC6i3SYH. There are two models with Intel i5-6260U and two models with Intel i3-6100U.

The NUC6i5SYK has an integrated Intel Iris 540 GPU with possibility to connect 4K screens, up to a maximum of 32 GB SODIMM DDR4 RAM and a type M.2. SSD

The mini PC mounts a full size HDMI 1.4b, a DisplayPort 1.2 with four USB 3.0 ports split evenly between the front and back, and a 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet. There are modules 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.1.

The NUC6i5SYH is slightly bigger than its brother which allows in addition to the M.2 SSD, a a traditional 2.5".hard drive.

The i5 flavours mirror the i3 in terms of format so the NUC6i3SYH can mount a mechanical hard drive beside the SSD M.2.

Intel's site does not mention price or an actual availability date although we suspect they are shipping now

Intel has started selling its barebone NUC mini PC prebuilt for a $255 price tag.

Intel started selling its Next Unit of Computing, a tiny PC that fits your business or living room as the whole PC, fully made up and ready. The first SKU codenamed Grass Canyon NUC is powered with Braswell Pentium N3700 Quad core which can run at 2.4GHz. It has a preinstalled Windows 10, 2GB DDR3L SODIMM and 32GB eMMC memory. It will brand well under the Mini PC Intel NUC Kit brand with NUC5PGYH as a product number.

This SKU runs with a 6W TDP CPU and it will run quiet. The machine still comes with two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports, two internal USBs, additional 2.5 inch HDD support, Intel wireless AC 3165 M2 card with Wi-DI and Bluetooth 4 support. The PC also comes with a HDMI support as well as consumer infrared port at the front.This is obviously an entry level model and the $255 for a PC that can run Windows 10 just fine is isn’t bad either. It is important to mention that the PC comes with VGA port for the ancient monitors that are still working in millions of office around the world making potential upgrades much easier.Intel wants to test the market with this inexpensive product and if the sales goes well it will announced more powerful products with NUC shape and the fully functional PC with Windows sales concept.

The concept of modular devices have been quite popular lately, so it does not come as a surprise that Acer decided to show a new modular mini PC during IFA 2015 show, called the Acer Revo Build.

While Razer have unveiled a similar concept with its Project Christine, which was a high-end gaming modular PC, Acer decided to keep things smaller and more simple with its Acer Revo Build NUC.

The Acer Revo Build mini PC will allow users to simply stack blocks on top of each other in order to add better graphics, power bank, built in speaker with amp or more storage space.

The main Revo Build block, with rather tiny 125mm square block with 55mm height, will be based on Intel's Celeron or Pentium CPU, up to 8GB of RAM and will feature USB 3.0 ports, and SD card slot, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.

Intel VP Kirk Skaugen says phablets are the fastest growing segment in mobile computing and Intel Core M might end up in one or two.

Intel loves its success of 2in1 Intel’s tablets and detachables and knows it can put 4.5W TDP processor inside of a tablet. Tablets start at 7 inches and higher and Intel could come up with an optimized Core m3 / m5 or m7 design that would do well in phablets.

Phablets start at 5.5 and bigger and there is potential for Intel to put its dual core processor inside. The Core m3 6Y30 with its clock up to 2.0 GHz would work well in phablets, or at least something similar. Likewise a high end Core m7 6Y75 running at up to 3.1GHz still remains cool with 4.5W TDP dissipation and might work too.

We will have to wait and see Intel delivering this processor in the mobile phone/ phablets factor and identify the manufacturer before we can be sure. Asus would be a "usual suspect" but so far Intel had nothing new to prove its good intentions.

There is always a hope that things will change for the better after Intel has a decent LTE modem and few relevant phone designs under its belt. Until this day arrives, Intel is trying to lure us with the new compute stick with Core M inside as well as NUC systems with Core M and Skylake refresh. We should hear more about this shortly.

While we already had a chance to see some slides suggesting that Intel is preparing Skylake-U based NUCs for the second half of the year, one such Switft Canyon NUC has been spotted at IDF 2015, running Skylake-U CPU and DDR4 memory.

Detailed earlier by a leaked slide from FanlessTech.com, the first Swift Canyon NUC was spotted running at Kingston's booth at IDF 2015, rocking HyperX DDR4 memory and HyperX Predator SSD. While the system was running without a case, it did reveal some rather impressive details, including mini-DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI outputs, USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11ac and Bluetooth card, and M.2 SSD drive support.

Pictured by Legitreviews.com, it is not clear which Skylake-U CPU was running in this NUC as both the Core i5-6200U and the Core i3-6100U have the same 2.3GHz CPU clock but it was nice to see it running two Kingston HyperX Impact DDR4 SODIMM 8GB memory modules for a total of 16GB of memory clocked at 2133MHz.

Earlier leak suggested that there will be both Core i5 and Core i3 versions, known as the NUC6i5SYK/NUC6i5SYH and the NUC6i3SYK/NUC3i5SYH.

Hopefully, we will soon see those on retail shelves as Skylake-U looks perfect for small form factor Intel NUC system.

Sales for the Compute Stick and NUC have been rising and it appears that Intel sees gold in the mini PC segment's potential. NUC s are seeing stable demand in Japan, China, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe.

Intel is set to release solutions with its new Core m5/m3 processors codenamed Cedar City in the fourth quarter for the Compute Stick.

The new Compute Stick will feature 4GB of memory, 64GB of storage space and support Ultra HD. It will be based around the Core m3-6Y30 processor, which is set to release in October. It will also have Windows 10.

The version with the Core m5-6Y57 vPro processor, will not come with a pre-installed operating system. In the first quarter of 2016, Intel is planning to launch inexpensive Atom x5 processors.

In November, Intel will launch two Skylake-based processors codenamed Swift Canyon, specifically for the NUC segment and will release high-end Core i7 processors at the end of the first quarter 2016 to improve the product line's specifications and functions.